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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Said   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Presidential Cycle - an observation
Date: 03/08/24 1:25 PM
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Hope this helps!
Oh yes, immensely!!!

Because this you say: What he has done is then break those 2 group MEANS into 2 separate periods and compare.

means that I misinterpreted his: the returns, since 1932, equal those of the remaining 41 months of the cycle! This has a less than one-in-a-million probability of occurring by chance

Because of the probability mentioned by him I interpreted this as "was the case for EVERY SINGLE ONE of those 23 presidential cycles", as this surely would have an extremely low probability.

After this being clarified actually I think this wrong interpretation would be very worth a test! For how MANY of those 23 PC's was the as Zee calls it "best period" equal to it's "worst period"? A test like this:

1) compare each PC's "best period" with it's "worst period"
2a) set a criterion for them being equal, f.e. an interval of 20% (to start generous; can be tightened later if the test is positive) => If the returns in the "best period" deviate not more than 20% from it's "worst period" you treat them as being equal
3) count in how many of the 23 PC's the "best period" equals the "worst period"

2b) for investments even more useful: count in how many PC's the returns during the "best period" were "Not worse (not less than -20%) or better (>=0%)" than during the "worst period".

A test for which - see Zee's post - of course one would need "GTR1's S&P 500 Dividend Adjusted", to include dividends; not possible for me as I think to understand to run GTR1 one needs a Sip Pro subscription (which I don't have), correct?
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